Fletcher Bond, the Manchester-based property consultancy, has relocated to a larger headquarters in the city centre, a move that on the surface looks like routine corporate housekeeping but which, read alongside the wider data on regional office demand, tells a more significant story about where confidence is returning fastest in the UK commercial property market. Firms whose entire business is advising on and transacting property rarely expand their own footprint without conviction that the underlying market justifies it. When a consultancy embedded in the day-to-day reality of leasing, valuations and investment decides to take more space, it is effectively putting its own money where its professional judgement lies.